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Still Life with Mix Tape

For this edition of our series of exhibition-related playlists I tackled Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, opening Sunday. We begin with a song about painting and end with a song about Spain, and in between are songs about as many of the items as I could find that that appear in Meléndez’s paintings—vegetables, dishes, etc. Unfortunately I didn’t have any songs about pomegranates or artichokes—nor, for that matter, cheese or pears or melons or tomatoes. Perhaps you can be of service: what songs did I miss?

Destroyer: European Oils

Snow Patrol: Chocolate

Brian Wilson: Vege-Tables

Bright Eyes: Bowl of Oranges

Iron & Wine: Bird Stealing Bread

Pulp: Dishes

Animal Collective: The Purple Bottle

Talking Heads: Stay Hungry

Slint: For Dinner…

Galaxie 500: King of Spain

You can download this playlist, and many of the others we’ve created, at iTunes.